axleOS with IRC client
-
Tom's Hardware ☛ Modder made an IRC client that runs entirely inside the motherboard's BIOS chip
Phillip Tennen, the developer of the open-source axleOS project, has made a functioning IRC client within UEFI.
-
Hackaday ☛ IRC Client On Bare Metal
In the beginning, there was the BIOS, and it was good. A PC’s BIOS knows how to set up the different hardware devices, grab a fixed part of a hard drive, load it, and run it. That’s all you need. While it might be all you need, it isn’t everything people want, so a consortium developed UEFI, which can do all the things a normal BIOS can’t. Among other things, UEFI can load code for the operating system over the network instead of from the hard drive.